Cave was forced to defend his royalist comments

Cave will attend the coronation as a member of the official Australian delegation with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, comedian Adam Hills and footballer Sam Kerr.

It's an honour that shocked fans of the outspoken musician and prompted Cave to defend his decision to attend.

Writing in his newsletter The Red Hand Files, Cave said: "I am not a monarchist, nor am I a royalist, nor am I an ardent republican for that matter."

But he added, "what I am also not is so spectacularly incurious about the world and the way it works, so ideologically captured, so damn grouchy, as to refuse an invitation to what will more than likely be the most important historical event in the UK of our age. Not just the most important, but the strangest, the weirdest."

He also described the late Queen Elizabeth II as the most charismatic woman he had ever met and said that he found himself weeping as he watched the Queen's funeral on television last year.

Fans were quick to condemn the move on social media, prompting one Twitter user to quip: "Nick Cave says the queen was the most charismatic woman I have ever met - you've met Kylie Minogue on several occasions you big dumb goth".

Others defended his sincere statement that he held an "inexplicable emotional attachment to the Royals - the strangeness of them, the deeply eccentric nature of the whole affair that so perfectly reflects the unique weirdness of Britain itself".

Cave grew up in regional Victoria and spent some years in Wangaratta where he was expelled from Wangaratta High School. He relocated to Melbourne and attended Caulfield Grammar School where he would meet future members of his band The Birthday Party including guitarist Mick Harvey.

Cave has lived in Britain for years and was name named an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2017.

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Cave is not the only Wangaratta local to attend the coronation, with little known aristocrat Simon Abney-Hastings, the 15^th Earl of Loudoun, assuming the role of Bearer of the Golden Spurs.

The Wangaratta resident is the only Australian with an official role in the ancient ceremony. The prestigious title involves presenting the new monarch with gold spurs that symbolised knighthood and chivalry.